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The Spanish stock market traded €744.5 billion to September, up 21.4% year on year

The Spanish stock market traded €744.5 billion to September, up 21.4% year on year

1 October, 2015

The equity trading volume in September reached €62.8 billion, the best month of September since 2009

Trading volume in ETFs to September exceeds that for the entire 2014

The trading volume in Warrants and Certificates market in the first nine months was up 45.3%

Trading volume in IBEX 35 Futures in September was up 17.4% year on year

New issues on the Corporate Debt market in September were up 318%

Equities

The equity trading on the Spanish Stock Market in the first nine months of the year came in at €744.5 billion, up 21.4% higher than in the same period a year earlier. The trading volume in September was €62.8 billion, up 1.3% year on year and the best month of September since 2009.

The number of trades to the end of September reached 47.9 million, down 4.4% from the same month 2014. In September the number of trades reached 4.9 million, down 7% from the same month a year earlier.

As for the ETF segment, the trading volume in the first nine months of the year totalled €10 billion, up 41.5% from the same period a year earlier and higher than the figure for the entire year 2014. The trading volume recorded in September in this segment came in at €892 million, up 30% year on year. The number of ETF trades in the first nine months of the year totaled 134,067 up 75.3% from those registered in the first nine months of 2014. Number of trades in September reached 14,594 up 58% from the same month a year earlier.

The trading volume on the Warrants and Certificates market in the first nine months of the year reached €888.1 million, up 45.3% year-on-year. The trading volume in this market in September reached €69.8 million, up 8.1% from September 2014.

Futures and Options

The total trading volume in the Derivatives market in September reached 4.9 million contracts, up 94% from a year earlier.

It is worth mentioning the heavy trading in September in Index Futures, with 656,872 IBEX 35 Futures and 264,574 IBEX Mini Futures, up 17.4% and 15.2% respectively year on year.

Trading in Options on Stocks also grew in September, with 2.2 million contracts traded, up 11% year on year.

The open interest on IBEX 35 Futures at the end of September was 99,733 contracts, up 25% year-on-year.

Fixed Income

The total of new issues traded on Corporate Debt in September reached €10.1 billion, up 318% year-on-year. In the period from January to September the number of new issues reached €115.5 billion, up 47% from the same period a year earlier.

The trading volume in this market in September came in at €25.7 billion, down 54% year-on-year. The trading volume in the first nine months of the year reached €411.8 billion.

The trading volume on the SEND electronic platform in September came in at €56.5 million, up 47.3% on the previous month, while to the end of September it totalled €756.5 million, of which €245 million correspond to Public Debt, growing 11%.